Teaching aims:
Help the students to learn something about art and architecture.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to improve the student’s speaking and listening ability.
Teaching Methods:
Individual or pair work to make the student’s practise their speaking, discussing and listening ability.
Teaching Steps:
Step 1. Lead-in
Show a piece of artwork, and ask
1. What is this?
2. Who painted it?
3. In what other ways can an artist express the beauty of something?
4. What words can be used to describe the various kinds of buildings?
5. What are buildings made of? Could you name some building materials?
Step 2. Warming up
Ask the Ss to talk about their hometown and their houses.
Qs:(1). where are you from, a city or a small town?
(2).Can you describe the buildings in your hometown?
(3).What kind of buildings do you live in, a traditional house or an apartment?
Show students two pictures, a tall building and a traditional yard. Then ask:
(1).What can you see in the two pictures?
(2).What is the difference between them?
Suggested answers:
Block of flats Traditional house
Modern.
Convenient.
The rooms are big.
Every flat has a toilet and bathroom.
Not much contact with their neighbors.
People often feel lonely.
Flat roof.
… Old-style.
The rooms are small.
Sometimes no toilet or bathroom.
Life is much more interesting. Neighbors get on well with each other. People can grow flowers in the yard.
The roof is sloping.
…
In which house would you prefer to live? Why?
S: I like living in ….because….
I prefer living…
I’d rather live…
Discuss questions 2 and 4.
Language point:
If you were free to design your own dream house, what would that house look like?
1) 句中谓语用了be 动词的过去式were,表示的不是时态，而是虚拟语气，是对现在情况的一种假设，其结构是：
If 从句的谓语用were / did, 主句谓语用would / could +do
e.g. If I were you, I would ring her up right now.
If I had any money with me, I could lend you some.
2) 对过去情况表示假设时，其结构是：
If 从句的谓语用had done, 主句谓语用would / could + have done
e.g. If you had come earlier, you would have seen your favorite star.
If you had taken my advice, you wouldn’t have failed in the examination.
Step3.Pre-listening
You have an own house. It is time to buy some furniture. What kind of furniture will you buy? And why do you prefer them?
Have a short discussion in pairs. You can introduce names of furniture, such as heater, air-conditioner and so on.
Step4.Listening
Books open, Page 18, listening part. You will listen to a talk between Amy and Danny. They want to buy some furniture for their new house. They visit a shop and talk with the sales assistant about their taste and preferences. Listen carefully and finish the exercises.
Step 5. Speaking
Open your books ,turn to page 17.Look at the two pictures. Ask:
1.What do you see?
2.Which do you prefer? Why?
Please work in pairs to make a short dialogue.
Books open, page18. Ask the students to Study the useful expressions. Remind them to learn the structure how to express their preferences. Listen to the sample dialogue and follow the tape.
Practice: Ask them to look at the pictures and choose the item they prefer. Try to explain the reasons.
Step 6.Language points:
1.I’d prefer living in a modern flat.
我更愿住在现代化公寓里。
prefer to do ( rather than do)宁愿……而不愿
prefer doing (to doing)喜欢……胜过
prefer sth to sth
prefer sb. to do 想让…干…
2.I must say I’d rather live in a traditional siheyuan.
依我看，我宁愿住在传统四合院里。
would rather (not )do sth宁愿（不）
would rather do than do宁愿……而不愿
She’d rather not buy that painting.
The hero would rather die than give in.
3. I wouldn’t feel happy living in a block of apartments.
living in a block of apartments在句中作状语，相当于从句even if I lived in a block of apartments.
e.g. Reading, attentively, he forgot the time for lunch.（原因）
Reading carefully, he found something he had not known before. （时间）
Reading carefully, you’ll learn something new.（条件）
4.stand :bear 忍受，经受
Eg:I can’t stand the man,he talks too much.
stand 无进行时，常与can连用于否及疑问句中
can’t stand +doing / n.
e.g. I can’t stand waiting any longer.
我再也等待不下去了。
Nobody can stand being laughed at in public.